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THE OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON SEMINAR ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
Spring 2014 Schedule
The Oliver E. Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis meets on Thursdays from 4:10 - 6:00 pm in room C325 Cheit Hall. Outside speakers normally meet with interested students from 3:00 - 3:45 pm in the IBI Conference room located in room F402 (in the Faculty Wing of the Haas School).

To schedule an appointment to meet with a speaker, click here: Speaker Schedule


Date
Speaker
Title of Talk/Paper
January 23
Gary Cox
(Stanford Univ.)

The Violence Trap: A Political Approach to the Problems of Development
January 30
Suresh Naidu
(Columbia Univ.)

TBA
February 6
Steven Durlauf
(Wisconsin Univ.)

Linear Social Interactions Models
February 13
Joachim Voth
(Univ. of Zurich)

Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party in Weimar Germany, 1919-33
February 20
Matt Jackson
(Stanford Univ.)

TBA

February 27
April Franco
(Univ. of Toronto)

What do I Take With Me? The Mediating Effect of Spin-Out Team Size and Tenure on the Founder-Firm Performance Relationship
March 6
Tom Vogl
(Princeton Univ.)

Estimating Habit Formation in Voting
March 13

Alex Wolitzky
(Stanford Univ.)

Cycles of Conflict: An Economic Model
March 20
Matt Notowidigdo
(Univ. of Chicago)

Public Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Employment Lock
March 27

NO SEMINAR

(Spring Break)

NO SEMINAR
April 3
Eric Verhoogen (Columbia Univ.)
 TBA
April 10
Paola Giuliano
(UCLA)
 Growing up in a Recession
April 17

Petra Persson
(Stanford Univ.)

TBA

April 24

Jesse Shapiro
(Univ. of Chicago)

Do Pharmacists Buy Bayer? Sophisticated Shoppers and the Brand Premium
May 1

Oeindrila Dube
(NYU)

 From Maize to Haze: Agricultural Shocks and the Growth of the Mexican Drug Sector


Copies of papers to be presented or related background reading will be available in Room F402, Haas School (Institute for Business Innovation); and in Room 611 Evans Hall (Department of Economics).

For information, contact Prof. Noam Yuchtman (yuchtman@haas.berkeley.edu) or Penny Hennagir, IBI (hennagir@haas.berkeley.edu)